Budette is hot… which is a strange thing to say. But, with his sister being the Playmate of the Year, is it any question that Bud would be anything but a hot chick? Oh, yeah.
I drew Bud and Jeff in the first panel along the lines of how I use to draw them back in 2008. I do a better job with cartoon hair today. Bud’s shirt is back to the original design (it was ruined the last time he transformed on the “Road Trip” saga, if you remember), so I’m trying to stay a bit true to what originally transpired. I also think of shit like that, being the Geek that I am.
The final frame is my homage to a great article from the November ’78 issue of National Lampoon which was written by John Hughes, who was relatively unknown at the time. Yes, the director of “The Breakfast Club”, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and “Sixteen Candles” wrote for National Lampoon. He did two similar articles where a young boy, or girl, mysteriously gains the sexual organ of the opposite sex for a day. “My Penis” and “My Vagina” are two of my favorite articles from those years in National Lampoon. Mainly as I actually read them. I bought Lampoon for the comics (duh) and the True Facts stuff they had. Plus the killer stereo ads they had. So, anyway, the illustration for “My Penis” has always made me laugh. From the moment I saw it, I always wanted to draw it. I attempted too back in 2008 and did a piss poor job of it. Today’s final frame captures it nicely. I’ve added it below for you to compare. Cracks me up…
Golden Oldie today. From 1976 is Cliff Richard’s comeback single “Devil Woman”. It’s especially appropriate for a couple reasons. One, the Devil is who finally breaks Bud’s curse in the first place. And, two, apparently the song has some curse spinning gypsy woman in it as well. This is from Wikipedia: “The song is told from the point of a view of a man jinxed from an encounter with a stray cat with evil eyes, and his discovery that the psychic medium (a Gypsy woman) whose help he sought to break the curse was the one responsible for the curse in the first place.” Who knew. I just like the guitar riff. I rarely listen to lyrics… which gets me hate mail every time I say that.
Man, I haven’t thought about Devil Woman for years. What a smack to the back of the brain flashback! Thank you very much for that. I was living in Chicago (right at Palatine Road & 53 in Arlington Heights) when that hit, and I still remember the spooky, black hot nights filled with lightening that summer. Had to have been two or three tornado warnings a week for a month straight with monster anvil clouds sweeping by every hour through the evenings. The Brothers Johnson Strawberry Love Letter #23 and the Eagles Hotel California were in hard rotation with it a lot. Damn. Just time traveled 35 years in a couple short riffs there. Whooosh! 😀
And, there is no “legend” about toad licking. It’s the Real Deal. Tried that with peyote once. Didn’t have a live toad for it, but had the dried mucus collected from the skin of one. Aztec sleigh ride into the heart of the stars, you will stride across mountain tops and wade through deserts vast. Keep a doob stashed for the rising sun to kick it back in and come down natural across the morning sky. Hell yeah. 😛
Okay, the call to Mythbusters has been canceled… Myth confirmed.
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Yeah, funny how music can take you right back to where you were at a particular place in time. Love that. And I *love* big storms. I will get up in the middle of the night and watch them. Better than sex. (not really)
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‘ I *love* big storms. I will get up in the middle of the night and watch them. Better than sex. (not really)’
Really! Ha! Are too!
Chased a tornado across one of those Big Country places once. Probably Utah? It was AWESOME. And FWIW while the rest of you are searching the internet for porn, I’m searching for wild weather footage because that’s *my* porn 😀 Seriously – I re-watch Twister at regular intervals and what it does to me isn’t suitable to mention on a public internet page P 😛 😛 (the tornadoes in it, not the silly plotline!) ILM really did an astonishing job of capturing the realism – I watched the footage of the recent Texas tornadoes last week and there was NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE between RL footage and ILM’s gorgeous CGI work!
Wow 3Xp4t! Great trip description! That sentence beginning with Aztec almost got me one of those flashbacks I was promised!
Yes, that was a great description! You readers are the best!
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err Flashbacks, see I lost an “H”!?!?!
The Master of the Universe… me… has fixed your missing “h”…
Bud IS hot…ewww I grossed myself out.
This will gross you out even further… Bud is the comic embodiment of ME… so yeah, wrap your head around that one good sir!
Ewww… 😛
~dies laughing~
Why do people think gender transformation is funny?
I’m sitting here reading this laughing and thinking “This is kind of awkward when you think about it” at the same time.
Well, in this context, I’ve obviously put it out there in such a surreal way, it is funny. I’m in no way making fun of anybody with this. I’m just not that smart.
Almost any type of unwilling transformation can be funny assuming it doesn’t go to the extreme of being horrific.
lmao
Seriously, Bud, that was dumb. I’m not complaining about the results, but it was dumb.
To be honest, there is no way in hell I’d ever… ever… lick a frog and/or toad, regardless of the outcome. Just the mention of the word “mucus” was enough to stop me from doing it. Yuk.
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A curse that turns Bud into a woman! And apparently steals his pants…
And why was he wearing panties?
Ah, you’re going to get my standard reply to questions like that, and it comes from our pal over at Mystery Science Theater 3000 and goes like this:
“If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts,
Just repeat to yourself ‘It’s just a show,
I should really just relax.’
For Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
It’s a cartoon. How does Bugs Bunny store all those outfits he goes off-frame to change into? Yep…
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I love that show! The “Love Theme from MST3K” (actual title of the theme, seriously) totally provided the perfect explination to any unexplainable situation in anything fictional (that, or “a wizard did it,” or time travel).
Star Trek uses the Time Travel thing at a drop of a hat. I was waiting for a hologram incident in the last film and it would have been the complete Star Trek “standard” plot device.
MST3K rocks. And yes, just relax, man…
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There is a GREAT, surprise guest strip over at Questionable Content today on the MST3K theme. Check it:
– http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2168
As far as “mucus” goes 😀 😛 😀 😛 😀 😛 😀 For lack of a better word, that really did sound a lot worse than the reality. 😉
I gag at the sight of Jello… so mucus is right out…
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If it’s slimy, I’m not going near it. Saw lambs being born in 1967 at the age of 10 and I think that was enough to turn me off to any type of food even coming close to that process.
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Would you want to see him in anything BUT panties? If I drew him in his tighty-whities, what fun would that be?
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Just makes you wonder about his… extracurricular activities. Or at least some of his other ones.
To each his own. 😉
And now bud is hott!
Hubba… 😛
God I miss Nat’l Lampoon from when it was in it’s heyday – early 70’s thru about the mid 80’s… Such an incredible stable of writters & folks who went on to big-time comedy & acting carreers associated with it. Unfortuneately, by about ’90 I found the content lamer & lamer… by the time it folded in ’98, it was a pale imitation of it’s glory days & pretty much sucked.
Cliff Richard; altho he never acheived the success in the US that he had in Britain & overseas (#1 selling singles artist in the UK, close to 20 #1 songs, over 250 million albums sold, putting him in with the same company as ‘Zep, Queen & ABBA, & outselling folks like Pink Floyd, AC/DC, the Bee Gees & the ‘Stones!) I thought he had well crafted songs that were definately a guilty pleasure of mine. I still enjoy “Devil Woman” & like 3Xp4t enjoy the ability of songs like that to transport ya back…
I have the entire collection of Lampoon in a PDF version they sold a few years back. One, the moron doing the scanning must have been high as a lot of the pages don’t line up (hello…) but even with that kinda crappy scan jobs, the humor of those glory years still shines through. And you’re right, I gave up on it by the early ’80s as they lost some great editors and contributors (like Hughes and PJ O’Rourke). They tried to reclaim their birthright as the premiere comedy publication, but the Onion blows them out of the water now. But even the Onion isn’t close to the materials being done in the late ’70s. Classic stuff.
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I was too young to collect National Lampoon in the late 70s. Thank God for older siblings. There really were some brilliant pieces in those years. My personal favorite was “The Prince of Sandusky, Ohio” (based on Machiavelli’s classic).
In the 90s I was lucky enough to find a used bookstore with a vintage magazine section, and they had a few NLs from the glory days with some of my old favorites. I now own my very own “Prince of Sandusky, Ohio” and “A New York Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (with Reggie Jackson as the protagonist), and got to discover some “new” greats like “Invasion of the Money-Snatchers” (a riff on the classic horror film where pastrami sandwiches from outer space turn WASPs Jewish — pure genius).
With you on the National Lampoon thing, I stopped reading it when P.J. left, but until then I loved it. I kept a few favorite issues and I have some of the best of collections. A particular favourite was the story that inspired the first vacation movie, and I loved the cover art, those fake Rockwell paintings were sheer undiluted genius. must look into that PDF thing.
My favorite cover (even if it is from after their glory days): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5314942156_883ac655ed.jpg
I love the dragon’s sh*t-eatin’ grin…
I have that one!
Got love the oldies but goodies, as they seem to pop up in commercials, and television. Its amazing how many oldies radio stations that are out there, and who could forget the sound track to E-Z rider or Flashback. As I am writing this post I am listening to “Woman in Black” by Foreigner, ahhh the good old days seem better in the hear and now and that why 90% of my music is the oldies and moldies
After reading some of the story, and now that Bud is transform in a hot moma, you should have him run around for a week or so in the clothes and vehicle of the time, go out the a disco club, and so on and so on.
Disco Duck is alive and well, and living
And who could forget “The Jogger” by Ray Stevens
I’m sure there are quirky songs today, but it seemed like the ’70s was chock-full of them. Ray Stevens was a master at the silly song.
There seem to be too many oldie stations. Which means either the new songs suck, or stations are afraid to take chances with programming like they use to. For me, it’s the latter. Stations have their standard playbook and won’t steer from it for a moment. Too corporate for me deal with, so I tune out most stations these days, particularly here in Chicago. Man, the stations reek.
Tell me about it. One time for Syd Barret’s birthday my local oldies station played a Pink Floyd song from after he left the group. When I called them up and requested they play something Syd actually worked on, the dj told me to go out and buy it myself.
What a schmuck.
Gender transformation xD?
He could always be kind and let the little fellow free that’s what Susan does in my comic. Naturally the pink ladies are disgusted by her doing so.
Lucky guy he now she looks hot in pink fabulous sexy change.